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The outcomes of the Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts research project are to be published in a three volume publication by Walther Koenig .

The three-volume set will consist of:

• Volume One: Field Work: Reports from the Fields of Visual Culture, papers from the conference Fieldwork: Reports from the Fields of Visual Culture, Victoria Miro, London 2003. Contributions from: Ursula Biemann, John Palmesino (Multiplicity), Iain Chambers, Renée Green, Stuart Hall, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Adrian Rifkin, Irit Rogoff, David Scott, Abdoul Maliq Simone, Rob Stone.
  
  
• Volume Two: Translating the Image: Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts, with contributions from Janice Cheddie, Kodwo Eshun, Simon Harvey, Isaac Julien, Rohini Malik Okon, Irit Rogoff,
  
  
• Volume Three: European Conversation on Cultural Difference, papers discussing the issues of cultural difference, within the context of contemporary Europe, with leading members of the European museum, gallery and curatorial fields.

Volume One: Field Work: Reports from the Fields of Visual Culture.

Field Work: Reports from the Fields of Visual Culture, following the highly successful conference at Victoria Miro, Gallery, London, 2003. Field Work brings together an exciting collection of papers from the conference with new artworks from artists who participated in the conference. The edited collection with have visual and written contributions from: Ursula Biemann, John Palmesino, Iain Chambers, Renee Green, Stuart Hall, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Adrian Rifkin, Irit Rogoff, David Scott, Abdoul Maliq Simone, Rob Stone.

Field Work: Reports from the Fields of Visual Culture, is an interdisciplinary effort to identify the bodies of knowledge informing the emergent fields of Visual Culture. In doing Field Work we step outside of ourselves to critically reflect upon the confines of our practices and locations. By conceptualising the arenas of our activities as fields, we creatively engage with the parameters that frame and separate them.

Field Work: Reports from the Fields of Visual Culture, seeks to unframed disciplinary practices and brings together a vibrant and eclectic mix of artists, theorists, academics and curators to exemplify the dynamic relations of several fields on the move, this at a moment in which the visual arts are becoming central in the production of new knowledge.

In bringing these cultural workers together, Field Work: Reports from the Fields of Visual Culture, connotes the convergence of various fields of activity: intellectual disciplines, forms of artistic and other cultural practices, and NGO-like structures whose authorisation stems from alternate legitimations. Replacing location away from nation-states and geographical regions, Field Work suggests a more fragmented set of locations in which a street corner, a landscape, a cultural horizon or ambient aurality might define an alternative site. Undisciplined and dislocated, the activity of doing Field Work facilities the role of the arts in the production of new knowledge.

Volume Two: Translating the Image, Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts

Translating the Image, Cross cultural contemporary arts posits a series of questions concerning notions of location, singularity, proximity and notions of visual culture. These questions evoke a notion of location as a site of performativity and criticality rather as a set of naturalised relations between subjects and places.

Translating the Image, Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts brings together the five-year work of the Cross Cultural contemporary arts research project, with individual contributions from the group’s core and associate members. Each of the essays in the anthology is theoretically grounded whilst seeking to address specific art practices. Translating the Image, Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts will contain contributions from: Janice Cheddie, Kowdo Eshun, Simon Harvey, Isaac Julien, Rohini Malik Okon, Irit Rogoff, Nicole Wolf.

Volume Three: European Conversation on Cultural Difference

Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts has established a twice-yearly ongoing conversation with a broad range of people working in Europe (rather than necessarily from or of Europe) in cultural theory and the visual arts. The volume brings together some of the proceedings from this unique and innovative pan-European seminar. Participants include: John Akomfrah, Ursula Biemann, Carlos Capelan, Catherine David, Bart De Baere , Jean Fisher, Marina Grzinic , Stuart Hall, Mike Hannula, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Hans Georg Knopp, Vasif Kortun, Christian Kravagna Jan-Erik Lundström, Gitta Luiten, Shaheen Merali, Desiderio Navarro, Milica Tomic.